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Metropolitan Development and Policing: The Elephant in the Living Room

America has moved swiftly from an urbanized to a metropolitan society. That momentous shift has affected most social institutions, including the police. But contemporary discussions of policing often ignore the objective conditions of concentrated poverty and racial segregation that have accompanied metropolitanization. Those conditions have become the elephant in the living room—obvious but ignored. This paper describes the recent changes in communities and examines their implications for policing.

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